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Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and nationhood, presenting an original analysis of the ways gender relations affect and are affected by national projects and processes. In Gender and Nation Yuval-Davis argues that the construction of nationhood involves specific notions of both ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’. She examines the contribution of gender relations to key dimensions of nationalist projects — the nation's reproduction, its culture and citizenship — as well as to national conflicts and wars, exploring the contesting relations between feminism and nationalism. Gender and Nation is an important contribution to the debates on citizenship, gender and nation.
Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment: Towards Transversal Politics
Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment: Towards Transversal Politics
The previous chapters in the book have looked at some of the major ways gender relations affect and are affected by national and ethnic processes. One such aspect (explored in Chapter 2) has been the biological reproduction of the nation. Although often legitimate fatherhood would be the gatekeeper for membership in a national or religious collectivity, women are the bearers of the collectivity. As such, within different national discourses on reproduction, they would be encouraged or discouraged, and sometimes forced, to have more or fewer children. As a result of the discourse that ‘people is power’ they would be called upon to have more children, so that the nation could flourish and ...
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